After Little Albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats, Watson wanted to see how he would react to a white rabbit, cotton wool, and a Santa Claus mask. He was studying whether or not __________ had occurred
a) stimulus generalization
b) extinction
c) stimulus discrimination
d) behavior modification
Answer: A
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a. The sense of smell appears to develop by 28 weeks after conception. b. Infants prefer the smell of human milk over formula even if they have only consumed formula. c. Newborns tend to act favorably to the odor of ammonia. d. Mothers can identify their baby solely by the baby's smell.
When you are presented with a list of terms to learn, it takes you one hour to memorize all the terms on a list. Two years later you relearn them in 45 minutes. The time difference of 15 minutes, or 25 percent (15 divided by 60 times 100), is called the
a. recognition score. b. curve of forgetting. c. redintegration score. d. savings score.
Eye movements during REM sleep are associated with a. a PGO wave
b. a spike from the thalamus to the cerebral cortex. c. a spike from the cerebral cortex to the thalamus. d. visual imagery of a static scene, as in stepping off a curb.
The view that moral development results from the internalization of moral standards is evident in
a. psychodynamic theories of moral development. b. social learning theories of moral development. c. cognitive-developmental theories of moral development. d. all of the major theories of moral development.